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The growth of global smartphone shipments slowed in 2015, reaching just under 340 million units in the second quarter, a new report from Strategy Analytics revealed Thursday. The 15 percent annual growth rate marked the smartphone industry’s slowest growth rate in six years.

For the second year in a row, T-Mobile took first place among the big four wireless carriers in the United States in a J.D. Power study that measures the quality of customer care. With the highest overall index score, this year’s win marks the 13th time T-Mobile has topped the study in its 22 publications.

The CWA says the mayors of Albany, Syracuse, Kingston, Rome and Utica, as well as the town supervisor of Brookhaven, have all echoed its claims that Verizon is refusing to build out its FiOS broadband and TV services in certain lower-income communities.

As smartphone penetration increases, carriers are increasingly looking to tablets for growth. Strategy Analytics points out that in the United States, three of the four top carriers have grown tablet connections to nearly 10 percent of their subscriber base.

Twitter failed to add users at a quick enough pace for investors in the second quarter even as revenue grew sharply, feeding concerns about whether it can ever become a mass-market service like Facebook or Google.